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Updated: May 11, 2025
There were the snores of the sleepers, the clank of the leg-chains as the wretched slaves shifted their positions in the attempt to gain an easier place on the bench, there was also the sound of men carousing with loud laughter in the stern of the vessel; but above them all rose the hollow groaning as of one in mortal agony. This proceeded from a slave who was quite close to Uruj.
Winter pounded the door of the hansom with his clenched fist "Then it is done!" he cried. "I'll truss him up like a fowl. If he tries any tricks I'll borrow the leg-chains from Stowmarket police station." At Liverpool Street they all made a hasty meal. They caught the last train from London and passed two weary hours until Stowmarket was reached. There on the platform stood the station-master.
"It was determined," he said with satisfaction, "by wise men of authority who rule such matters at the trap-stockades, that this elephant had done just judgment; because the man had done murder. "But we could not come close to this elephant to link with his leg-chains for his threatening eye.
"How would you like to hear one about the hot, sandy desert?" asked Humpo, the camel. "That would be fine!" cried Umboo. "Tell us your story, Humpo!" "I will," promised the camel. It will be called "Humpo, the Camel." The elephants swayed to and fro, their leg-chains clanking in the tent. The monkeys chattered among themselves. Snarlie, the big, striped tiger yawned and stretched.
There armourers were ready, with handcuffs and leg-chains hanging like necklaces round their shoulders. The door in the wall opened silently, the porter called through his niche: 'These have leave to enter. Thomas Culpepper shouted 'Coneycatcher' at the captain before he pulled the mule's head round. The beast hung back on his hand, and he struck it on its closed eyes in a tumult of violent rage.
Can you not see, poor misguided "fellow citizens," how you permit your political taskmasters to forge leg-chains of your follies and load you down with them?
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